Training

The Montana Community Health Worker (CHW) training provides the knowledge and skills necessary to become a Community Health Worker. The instructor-guided curriculum takes approximately seven weeks (85 hours) to complete and consists of four online or in-person 15-hour Learning Modules and a 25-houron-the-job Supervised Experience taken at the completion of the four Modules. Each Module contains written content, videos, application activities, case studies and reflective journaling. An…

“MI is a collaborative, goal-oriented style of communication with particular attention to the language of change. It is designed to strengthen personal motivation for and commitment to a specific goal by eliciting and exploring the person’s own reasons for change within an atmosphere of acceptance and compassion.” (Miller& Rollnick, 2013, p. 29) “SBIRT is an approach…

“MI is acollaborative, goal-oriented style of communication with particular attentionto the language of change. It is designed to strengthen personal motivation forand commitment to a specific goal by eliciting and exploring the person’s ownreasons for change within an atmosphere of acceptance and compassion.” (Miller& Rollnick, 2013, p. 29) “SBIRT is an approach to the delivery of…